Edit your transcript and get a rough cut - text-based editing in Premiere Pro (Beta)
[12:08 Sun,12.February 2023 by blip]
For some time now, Premiere Pro has offered its own integrated audio transcription of the video material to be edited or of a specific sequence - a functionality that previously required external services such as Simon Says, Transcriptive and others. Spoken original sounds can then be found as a text document within the editing program, which can make navigating dialog-heavy projects much easier. For example, certain passages can be found more quickly in the timeline.
Of course, the step to text-based editing is not far away. The two services mentioned above both offer a tool for rough editing via text (Simon Says Assemble and Transcriptive Rough Cutter) directly in Premiere, and other providers also offer similar tools. In fact, we think we remember that it was already possible to send marked text passages to the timeline within Adobe's own speech-to-text function, but we can't find any info on that right now.
Anyway, Adobe is now expanding the possibilities of text-based video editing - in the beta version of Premiere Pro, a separate workspace is being introduced for this purpose on a trial basis. In it, the transcribed text document gets more space. It takes up the entire left pane, making it easier to navigate the text. In contrast to the creation of subtitles, not only the text itself is edited, but the sequence of clips on the timeline can be influenced via the link to the source video files - in other words, a rough cut can be created.
If sentences are marked and moved within the document, the sequence of the corresponding snippets on the timeline also shifts. If you delete a text passage, this video sequence also disappears in the edit. For the most part, the keyboard shortcuts familiar from text programs can be used.
In this way, you can create an editing sequence in no time at all, which is based solely on a chain of desired original sounds - ideal, for example, for reports and classic "talking heads" documentaries. From this, you can then get to work on forging a respectable film.
The workspace for text-based editing in Premiere Pro can be tried out in the current beta, as already mentioned, before it will be included in the official version in the foreseeable future.
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